re: Were you bullied growing up?

Just once when I was a freshman in HS.

Hope that twerp that did it is dead.

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Nowadays, the teachers still do nothing, but you get suspended for a week for punching the kid in the face. Zero tolerance rules have only made bullying worse.

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This is true.

I've taught my daughter that she has the right to defend herself. If someone attacks her, she has my permission to hit that person until they go away. She was worried about getting in trouble at school. I told her that as long as she didn't start a fight, and that she was defending herself, she would be not be in trouble with me, which is what really matters. I would deal with her teachers if that came up.

I got called on stage in 5th grade to do the Macarena at some assembly.

I killed it, no doubt. But was made fun of the rest of the school yr.

#metoo

Yes, I attended an all boys Catholic school in NOLA and the guys doing it were Freshmen ( School started in Middle School) One of the Brother's observed it, I got called into his office and he told me that it would not stop until I stood up for myself. He said that while at school he could control it, after school he did not have the power to do so. The guys lived in the neighborhood and in his opinion, they would not stop until I put one of them in their place.

Brother was an old wrestling coach and he also oversaw the weight room. He would let me in the weight room before school to lift, work out and imparted me with a lot of knowledge about life. It did not hurt that I also made friends with some of the upperclassmen who were starters on the football team and were major college prospects at schools like LSU, MSU and the Air Force Academy.

Brother told me that if I did what he said in the weight room and outside of it, that as time went on those guys would stop bothering me. It worked and it didn't, most of them stopped. But there was one asswipe that kept it up, One day he started wit his shite and cornered me in an area of school where he thought no one was going to catch him he decided to punch me in my arm when I would not give him what he wanted. I was ready to throw down and I did not care if I got hurt.

Long and short of it, I got my arse beat by him....he was much bigger than me. The next morning I went into the weight room and Brother was not there yet but, two of the football player friends were.....I told them what happened. They were actually proud of me for taking on the guy.

Later that day I ran into the guy that I got in a fight with and apparently, the guys from the football team, had "spoken" with him. Guy became a friend after that

Still don't know what was said, but the "bully" stayed far away from them for the remainder of the school year....far away

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Still hurts in a way

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You should have let that go by first year of college.

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I imagine a therapist would tell me my childhood really drives that.

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Small dick insecurity drives all that

Negative, so everythat is successful and dominant in business has small peckers?

Yes. I was smaller but good at sports. A supporting family structure and good friends made it a non factor.

For a time, I think around 5-7 grade I believe. The same group of 4-5 trashy guys, most of which were older. Seems like it was only consistent here and there, maybe only a handful of run-ins, but if I think back I can remember the fear. (The feeling kinda makes me want to go kick someone's arse ).

It just kinda stopped, not sure why but I had eventually started playing football, making more friends, and getting in other fights in the meantime, so I guess overall I had evolved into a less attractive bully target. By 8-9th grade I was even moreso, and took out or backed down some of the same guys and was never bullied again afterwards.